Syrian army has intercepted missiles Israeli regime’s fighter jets fired towards a military position near the capital, Damascus.

In a statement carried by state media on Wednesday, the army said the Israeli aircraft used Lebanese airspace for the missile strikes.

Loud blasts were heard in Damascus at around 3:30 a.m. local time.

“Our air defense systems blocked them and destroyed most of them,” said the statement.

The latest attack on Syria came shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a rare visit to the occupied part of Syria’s Golan Heights and peered across the border.

In a letter sent to the UN Secretary General and Security Council President, the Ministry said that on 3:42 am on Wednesday in 7/2/2018, the Israeli occupation attacked once again the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, as Israeli aircrafts fired missiles from the Lebanese airspace on an area in Damascus Countryside province.

The Ministry went on to say that the attack coincided with the attacks of armed terrorist organizations and the launching of more than 1,000 rockets and mortar rounds during the past few days on neighborhoods, suburbs, diplomatic missions, service facilities, and churches in Damascus and other cities, where dozens of civilians were killed and hundreds others were wounded, most of them women and children… … … … … … … … …

The competent authorities on Friday seized new amounts of weapons, various ammunition, toxic materials and Israeli-made mines left by Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organization in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

The authorities discovered Israeli-made mines, poisonous materials and weapons from the remnants of Daesh during the sweeping operations of the villages of al-Sayyal, Hassrat and the town of al-Jalaa in the eastern countryside of the province, according to SANA’s reporter.

The competent authorities continue their work in combing the villages and towns of the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor and cleansing the area of the remnants of Daesh in preparation for the return of the families to their homes… … …

… … …Dissident-affiliated websites reported on Tuesday that Israeli military is planning to cross into Syria amid intensified tensions between Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) and other rival terrorist groups in the Southern part of the country… … …

… … …The Zionist entity intention is to transform most of Israel’s neighboring Arab states into warring tribes and ethnicities so they would no longer be a threat to the colonial entity. Tel Aviv leaders have stated openly that they would prefer continued chaos in Syria… … …

Some of the military aid sent to the Syrian opposition by Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the US may have ended up in the hands of Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra terrorists, the Qatari foreign minister has admitted.

The revelations, which are the first of their kind to emerge, were contained in a statement by Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, who served as Qatari foreign minister between 1992 and 2013.

When the conflict started in Syria back in 2011, Hamad bin Jassim said that he went straight to the late Saudi King Abdullah, who then supported Doha’s plan on Syria.

While Qatar is now being accused by the Gulf kingdoms of backing terrorism, Hamad bin Jassim insists that when the Syrian crisis broke out, Doha, Riyadh and Washington were “in one and the same trench” in their vision on supporting anti-Assad militants.

He made the comments during a television interview with Qatar TV in October.

According to the former minister, all aid destined for the Syrian rebels passed via Turkey and was coordinated with the US forces.

“All aid distributed on Syrian territory was also coordinated by the US forces,” said Hamad bin Jassim who also served as Qatari prime minister between 2007 and 2013.

He did not specify who exactly was to receive the aid, but the US – together with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey – have repeatedly voiced their support for Syrian opposition and issued both humanitarian and military aid to anti-government militants… … …

We’ve already said that Americans are leading a double game in Syria. Russia’s Ministry of Defense provides another evidence. It’s about the battle of Raqqa. Americans have recently bombed Raqqa like Dresden was bombed at the end of World War II. And the ISIS militants with weapons were carefully transported to Deir-ez-Zor in the vehicles specially rented for them. There the Syrian army is fighting with the fanatics. The map shows dozens of trucks and buses moving to the southeast, completely unhindered, as if they didn’t exist for the US Air Force. When they arrived at Deir-ez-Zor last week, they immediately attacked the government forces from the North. The thugs there were destroyed. But they still caused troubles to our units. Thank the Americans. As for Raqqa, Damascus says the city will be liberated only when it’s controlled by the government forces. It hasn’t happened so far. Our war correspondent Anton Stepanenko has reached the Idlib de-escalation zone. He’s the only Russian journalist to get there.

Syrian Arab Army units discovered large amounts of weapons, ammunition and explosive devices, some of which are Israeli- made.

A field commander said the weapons included several kinds of heavy, medium and light weapons, some of which are of Israeli–made, mortars, ammunition, and also NATO-made weapons purchased from Central and Eastern European states and other European and western countries.

The commander added that the weapons also included mortars, AK-47 rifles, heavy machine guns, RPGs and various types of ammunition, armored and artillery equipment, large quantities of anti-armor, 155 mm cannons with a range of up to 40 km, of NATO- made.

The munitions are the transported by both sea and air from Europe to Turkey, Jordan and Kuwait. They are then distributed to US allies in northern and southern Syria by planes and trucks… … …

Civilians in the town of Kafr Naboudeh in Northern Hama engaged in heavy fighting with Ahrar al-Sham and Jeish al-Nasr, killing several terrorists including a field commander, news websites affiliated to terrorist groups disclosed.

The websites said that residents of Kafr Nabouden started clashing with the terrorists of Ahrar al-Sham and Jeish al-Nasr that had attacked Kafr Naboudeh and tried to enter the town.

The media outlets added that the civilians blocked terrorists’ path into the town, defending Syrian army soldiers deployed in Kafr Naboudeh.

Fierce clashes broke out between the pro-government civilians and terrorists at Kafr Naboudeh entrace gate, leaving several militants dead including commander of Jund al-Sonah Brigade known as Abu Hazen, said the websites………………..

Syrian army troops and National Defense Forces in a joint offensive drove Jeish al-Izzah terrorist group out of the positions that it had captured in the Northwestern Hama on Saturday.

Syrian government forces, backed up by the Syrian fighter jets and artillery units, struck Jeish al-Izzah’s positions and took back Shelwat checkpoint and the village of Abu Obeideh, killing at least 20 militants and destroying their arms and ammunition.

After the terrorists’ Saturday attack, a large number of popular forces, deployed in Ma’ardeh, were sent to al-Malah.

The terrorist group retreated from the battlefield to al-Latamina after sustaining heavy casualties.

The mercenary-terrorist gangs, jihadist-extremists in the pay of the best bidder, are not likely to leave Aleppo, they’ve been taking advantage of the humanitarian pauses by launching deadly ground offensives, recently killing over 100 civilians. Is now the time to do away with these criminals and delete them permanently from the face of the earth, along with their instructors and Western military advisers…well hidden in Aleppo…

A curious aspect of the Syrian conflict – a rebellion sponsored largely by the United States and its Gulf state allies – is the disappearance in much of the American mainstream news media of references to the prominent role played by Al Qaeda in seeking to overthrow the secular Syrian government of President Bashar Hafez al-Assad.

There’s much said in the U.S. press about ISIS, the former “Al Qaeda in Iraq” which splintered off several years ago, but Al Qaeda’s central role in commanding Syria’s “moderate” rebels in Aleppo and elsewhere is the almost unspoken reality of the Syrian war. Even in the U.S. presidential debates, the arguing between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton has been almost exclusively about ISIS, not Al Qaeda.

The photos sent out to the world by skillful rebel propagandists are almost always of wounded children being cared for by the “White Helmet” rebel civil defense corps …(‘White Helmets’ archive)…, which has come under growing criticism for serving as a public-relations arm of Al Qaeda and other insurgents. (There also are allegations that some of the most notable images have been staged, like a fake war scene from the 1997 dark comedy, “Wag the Dog.”)…

…The U.S. government and its allies have smuggled sophisticated weapons into Syria to arm rebels who are operating in support of Al Qaeda’s new military offensive against Syrian government forces in Aleppo. By any logical analysis, that makes the United States an ally of Al Qaeda…

…The other unfortunate truth is that the U.S.-supplied rebels have served, either directly or indirectly, as conduits to funnel U.S. military equipment and ordnance to Al Qaeda.

Information from a wide range of sources, including some of those the United States has been explicitly supporting, makes it clear that every armed anti-Assad organization unit in those provinces [of Idlib and Aleppo] is engaged in a military structure controlled by [Al Qaeda’s] Nusra militants. All of these rebel groups fight alongside the Nusra Front and coordinate their military activities with it. …

“At least since 2014 the Obama administration has armed a number of Syrian rebel groups even though it knew the groups were coordinating closely with the Nusra Front, which was simultaneously getting arms from Turkey and Qatar.

…“The greatest danger to Israel is by the strategic arc that extends from Tehran, to Damascus to Beirut. And we saw the Assad regime as the keystone in that arc…The greatest danger to Israel is by the strategic arc that extends from Tehran, to Damascus to Beirut…we saw the Assad regime as the keystone in that arc” [Jerusalem Post]…….

~ In northeastern Aleppo, the Syrian army and Liwa al-Quds also continued operations against Jaish al-Fatah militants (mostly members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki). The main clashes took place inside the neighborhoods of Bustan Al-Basha and ‘Ard Al-Hamra. Pro-government forces argue that the Syrian military seized the whole ‘Ard Al-Hamra Neighborhood. ~ In southwestern Aleppo, the army and allies have repelled another attempt by militants to retake the Air Defense Battalion Base. 5 militants were killed. Local sources say that Iranian military servicemen were operating in the area along with Syrian troops.~ The Syrian air strike allegedly killed one of the FSA highest ranking commanders in northern Homs – the Chief of Staff for the Free Syrian Army, Colonel Shouki Ayyoub – on October 26. Ayyoub had played an important role in creation a brand of the FSA.~ The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces (NDF) continued to attacks Jaish al-Islam militantsnear the strategic city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta. ~ Actions of the Russian air grouping in Syria have resulted in a 70% decrease of the oil trafficking by the ISIS terrorist group, Vitaly Naumkin, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) said on October 26.
~ According to the RAS’ information, the Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed over 300 facilities involved in the production and transportation of oil and oil products. Naumikn added that efforts of the Russian military allowed the government forces to liberate 568 settlements, including 150 towns. Some 3700 militants have surrendered to the Syrian government and 847 settlements jointed to the reconciliation process promoted by Moscow.….(read more on SouthFront)…

A senior Syrian legislator said the western states seek to rescue the terrorist groups’ foreign ringleaders from Aleppo and ordered them to stay in the city until they can work out a deal with Damascus and Moscow.
“The terrorists stationed in Eastern Aleppo had taken orders from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar to remain in the region,” Fares al-Shahabi told FNA on Monday.
“The main reason behind such an order was the West’s intention to make a deal (with Syria and Russia) which would lead to the evacuation of foreign ringleaders of the terrorists from Eastern Aleppo,” he added.
Al-Shahabi said that the foreign commanders of the terrorist groups in Aleppo are nationals of the NATO member states and Israel.

The latest reports from Eastern Aleppo said that Fatah al-Sham Front (the newly-formed al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group previously known as the al-Nusra Front) continues to seize people’s food supplies by force and executed an Imam who tried to persuade civilians and militants to leave the Eastern part of Aleppo.
“On the third day of the humanitarian paused in Aleppo, the Fatah al-Sham arrested and assassinated a popular leader who called on militants to lay down arms and enter peace with government and urged people to leave the city as soon as possible,” sources in the Eastern parts of the city said on Sunday.

In the meantime, more civilians in Eastern Aleppo called on international organizations to help them leave Aleppo.
“People in the Eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo face very bad situation. The terrorists groups take by force their food supplies and money and beat them,” one of residents said.

The Jeish al-Fatah coalition of terrorist groups blocked UN-affiliated rescue teams’ entry into the Eastern districts of Aleppo city to evacuate over 200 wounded people to medical centers outside the war zone.

Syrian government forces struck Jeish al-Fatah’s defense lines in the Southern and Southwestern districts of Aleppo city, capturing a number of building blocks, media source said Sunday. Syrian Army has also dispatched a large number of soldiers, armored vehicles and tanks to Aleppo province to reinvigorate government forces’ combat and defense capabilities there, military sources said…>>>…

Russian Defense Ministry: “Only the Syrian army has been observing the ceasefire regime within these three days of implementation of the agreements while the US-led ‘moderate opposition’ has been increasing the number of shellings of residential quarters”.

The Syrian Army has started withdrawal of heavy military equipment to create demilitarized zone, the Russian General Staff stated on Thursday.

“The Syrian governmant troops have stopped firing and begun to withdraw their tanks, IFV and artillery to a set distance to create a demilitarized zone. The Russian Aerospace Force and the Syrian Air Force have stopped airstrikes on areas where opposition units may be located,” Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir, first deputy chief of the General Staff’s Main Operational Department, told reporters.

“The Russian side is completely fulfilling its obligations under the ceasefire agreement. A checkpoint created on Castello Road has been handed over to the Red Crescent Society. The people’s self-defense units ‘Bustan’ and ‘Shield’ are defending the checkpoint,” Poznikhir said.

He added that the Russian Defense Ministry “has no information related to similar actions by opposition groups controlled by the US.” The first deputy chief of the General Staff’s Main Operational Department also said that withdrawal from Castello road in Aleppo may be halted if militants fail to do it simultaneously with the Syrian army. Moreover, the Russian General Staff voiced concern over a steady increase in ceasefire violations in Syria by opposition militants caused by Washington’s failure to separate ‘moderate opposition’ from al-Nusra Front terrorists.

The extremist groups redeploy their units to Kafr Hamrah village located to the northwest of Aleppo city amid nationwide ceasefire in Syria, a source in the city militia told RIA Novosti on Thursday.

“Terrorists are assembling a lot of fighters in Kaft Hamrah. According to our data, they are forming assault groups,” the source said. According to the source, additional units were redeployed from Idlib province to Aleppo city.

A Syrian military source announced on Thursday establishing full control over al-Ramouseh area to the south of Aleppo after eliminating the remaining hotbeds of Jaish al-Fateh terrorists there.Syrian Arab Army units hunted the remnants of terrorists who fled away towards the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo at a time when the engineering units began dismantling the explosive devices and bombs that were planted earlier by terrorist organizations in the streets and buildings of al-Ramouseh neighborhood.Syrian Arab Army units, in cooperation with the allied forces, carried out intensive operations during the past hours against the hotbeds of terrorist organizations in al-Ramouseh to the south of Aleppo which resulted in establishing control over the gas factory, the tanneries, the slaughterhouse, the Post’s building and the military checkpoint site in the area, leaving many terrorists dead, in addition to destroying a number of mortar positions, heavy machine guns and a cannon for them.

Judicial Watch proved it. Under a Freedom of Information Act request, Judicial Watch was able to obtain a (heavily redacted) copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) directive that initiated the creation of ISIS in 2012. The DIA report states,

Not even Judicial Watch seems to have appreciated the significance of this document, where its press release focused on the Benghazi attack. Recent releases of Hillary’s emails, moreover, confirm that taking out Assad has nothing to do with his alleged abuse of the Syrian people but because it will help Israel.

Just in case it has slipped anyone’s mind, Hillary was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. Barack was inaugurated in 2008 and steps down in 2016. It happened on their watch. It could not have happened without their approval. They really did create ISIS!

The chemical attacks on Syrian citizens on 21 August 2013 was meant to justify lobbing cruise missiles into Syria. Obama was ready, but Americans were not. And when the ploy was debunked by a 50-page dossier the Russians provided to the UN, they resorted to “Plan B”, which was the creation of ISIS by the DIA.
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For those who may have missed the memo, 9/11 was brought to us by the CIA, the Neo-Cons in the Department of Defense (most of whom were dual US-Israel citizens) and the Mossad. Its objective was to transform US foreign policy from one in which we (at least, officially) never attacked any nation that had not attacked us first to one in which we would become the greatest aggressor nation in the world.

Wesley Clark, upon his return from serving as Supreme Commander, Allied Forces Europe (the military chief of NATO), learned the plan was to take out the governments of seven nations in the next five years, beginning with Iraq and Libya and ending with Syria and Iran…

Aside from the standard list of lies which US-led ‘Coalition’ representatives regularly spout regarding their so-called ‘moderate rebels’ (terrorists) in Syria, there is another key lie which is only barely holding Washington and London’s house of cards together – that is the idea that some of these ‘moderate rebels’ (terrorists) are somehow engaged in the grand crusade against ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh (all terms apply equally to ISIS). For all intents and purposes, this spurious western claim is a lie – one of many lies about Syria constantly being fed to the public by western politicians and media functionaries.

The reality, outside of the Washington-London “classified” reality bubble is that these US-NATO-GCC-backed ‘moderate rebels’ (terrorists) have, more or less, the exact same objectives as ISIS,and unless they are fighting over control over money or illicit black markets, their shared collective goal is the overthrow of the Syrian government in Damascus via ‘regime change’ and an end to a secular, multi-religious nation-state of Syria. Put simply: their flag designs and online brands may differ, but they are effectively one in the same. So it only stands to reason that if the US-NATO allies are wholeheartedly backing this rebel-terrorist ‘armed opposition’ conclave, then despite their highfalutin rhetoric, US-NATO allies are also supporting an end to the secular multi-religious nation-state in Syria.

Furthermore, as western-backed terrorist rebels share the same objectives as ISIS, then by extension – this also means that the US-NATO allies share the exact same goals as ISIS. Yes, that’s right: US-NATO forces have positioned themselves as natural allies of ISIS, alongside the ‘moderate rebel’ terrorists who have already received billions in western taxpayer-funded arms, equipment, training, intelligence support and cash.

Drone footage shows the ruins of Kinsabba after the town was retaken by Syrian government forces and allied militias last week. The town in north-eastern Latakia province had previously been held by the Jaish Al-Fateh terrorist gang.

Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq said that al-Nusra Front terrorist organization which earlier claimed its separation from al-Qaeda and the change of its name, is still on the UN “ISIL (Daesh) & Al-Qaida Sanctions List”.

Al-Nusra Front terrorist organization which earlier claimed its separation from al-Qaeda and the change of its name, is still on the UN “ISIL (Daesh) & Al-Qaida Sanctions List,” Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq said on Friday.

In a Thursday video, al-Nusra Front leader Mohammed Jolani said the group had split from al-Qaeda and changed its name to Jabhat Fath al Sham, or “The Front for Conquest of Levant.”

“In terms of how the UN system views them, there’s consolidated list of all of the individuals and entities associated with al-Qaeda. And al-Nusra continues to be on that list,” Haq told journalists.
Earlier on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the any attempt by a terrorist organization to change its image is futile.

Homs/Aleppo, 3 March 2016 ~ The Syrian army’s air force destroyed command centers, gatherings and vehicles equipped with machineguns for daesh [ISIS] terrorist organization east and west of Palmyra city, Rasm al-Arnab village and Wadi Abyad area in the eastern countryside of Homs province, a military source reported on Thursday.

In Aleppo province, according to military sources the Syrian Air Force destroyed Daesh terrorists’ dens and vehicles equipped with machineguns in al-Bab city and the villages of Sarja Kabeera and Mazare’ al-Madyouna.

Aleppo, 3 March 2016 ~ Two civilians were killed and 25 others were injured in terrorist rocket attacks on al-Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo on Thursday.

Idleb, 2 March 2016 ~ A civilian was killed and three others were injured in a terrorist attacks on the locals in Kafriya town in Idleb countryside.

ALEPPO ~ The Syrian Army advanced in the Eastern part of Aleppo province and encircled over 800 ISIL terrorists, leaving them with no way out, an acute shortage of ammunition and food supply, military sources said Sunday.

“The Syrian Armed Forces, in very successful operations, imposed full control over Um Tureikiyeh in the vast plains of al-Safira, in which over 800 ISIL terrorists that were fighting the government forces at the strategic city of al-Safira and its nearby village of Tal Aran found themselves encircled for the first time in this war,” the sources said.

“The 800 ISIL terrorists have no outlet to retreat and they have no available supply lines; this means, they will either surrender to the Syrian Armed Forces or fight till the death,” the sources added.

Reports said on Saturday that the Syrian army alongside popular forces gained full fire control over ISIL’s lines of supply in the Eastern part of Aleppo province.

Almost the entire supply lines of the ISIL terrorist group have come under the control of the Syrian government forces, and actually the militant group’s members operating in the Eastern part of Aleppo have been trapped with no way to scape.

LATTAKIA ~ The Syrian Army and popular forces pushed the militant groups back from more territories in the Northern part of Lattakia province and took back several villages and heights near the border with Turkey.

The Syrian army and the National Defense Forces (NDF) stormed the militant groups positions in the mountainous region of the coastal province of Lattakia and imposed full control over the villages of Hamrat, al-Deirouneh, Nahashba and Mahshaba, Ruweisat al-Kitf, Ruweisat Taloukshi and Ruweisat Wata al-Sindianeh and a number of strategic heights.

The militant groups left behind a number of dead and wounded members and fled the battlefields.

The Syrian Army alongside popular forces gained full fire control over ISIL’s lines of supply in the Eastern part of Aleppo province.

Almost the entire supply lines of the ISIL terrorist group have come under the control of the Syrian government forces, and actually the militant group’s members operating in the Eastern part of Aleppo have been trapped with no way out.

Earlier reports said that scores of the ISIL terrorists were killed and many more were wounded in the Syrian government forces’ offensives in the Northern and Eastern parts of Aleppo province.

The Syrian army troops and the National Defense Forces (NDF) hit heavily the ISIL centers near Tal Arbash in the Eastern part of Aleppo province and in the surroundings of the villages of al-Qaroutiyeh, al-Zaalaneh and Treidem in the Northern site of the city of al-Safirah, which claimed the lives of tens of the terrorists.

Concentration of Takfiri terrorists in the villages of al-Halak, al-Shqeif, Maarat al-Artiq and Yaqed al-Adas in the Northern and Northwestern parts of Aleppo province were stormed by the Syrian government force… … …

Turkey has relocated hundreds of terrorists from Idlib province to Aleppo via its soil to block the Kurdish fighters’ rapid advances in Northern Aleppo province, media reports disclosed on Sunday.

At least 400 militants have been transferred to Northern Aleppo to help the terrorists who are losing the ground to the Kurdish fighters who are backed by Russian air force, Arab media outlets said.

The Turkish army has been pounding the positions of the Kurdish fighters in both Northern Lattakia and Northern Aleppo provinces all throughout Sunday to pin down the Syrian army and popular forces and prevent them from shaking hands with the Kurdish troops that are fighting in the Northern parts of Aleppo province.

Several villages in vast areas of Afrin in Northwestern Syria came under artillery shelling by the Turkish army and terrorist groups all throughout Sunday.

The artillery shelling of the Kurds in Northern Aleppo comes as the Kurdish fighters, backed by Russian fighter jets, are currently engaged in intense clashes with the terrorist groups at the Western entrance of the strategic town of Tal Rifat town in the Northern part of Aleppo province.

Hezbollah fighters in a successful operation in Idlib province opened their way into the areas controlled by the terrorists of Jeish al-Fatah (the Army of Conquest) and inflicted heavy losses on them.

After receiving intelligence about the exact location of Jeish al-Fatah terrorists and monitoring their movements, the Hezbollah fighters laid mines near Al-Mohadatha school where the militants were stationed.

Two terrorist commanders named Al-Rezvan Wahib and Abdel Razzaq were killed after they hit the landmines.

Scores of terrorists were killed and many more were injured during the Syrian army’s operations in Idlib province.

ISIS’ ideological source code can be found among America’s allies in Riyadh. A recent confab of so-called “Syrian rebels” took place recently in Saudi Arabia. Those attending included a collection of dysfunctional expatriate “opposition” leaders as well as commanders from various militant groups operating in Syria including Ahrar al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam – both affiliates of Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front.
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Al Nusra and ISIS’ rise to prominence was not the result of US foreign policy backfiring in Syria, IT WAS THE RESULT OF US FOREIGN POLICY WORKING PRECISELY AS PLANNED.
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Saudi Arabia has proved over the decades to be an extremely pliable client state. Attempts to replicate this, even on a smaller scale in Syria and Iraq would be ideal. Having a Saudi-Qatari-Turkish arc of influence from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf would be as ideal for Washington as a Shia’a arc of influence would be to Syria, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia.
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ISIS then, serves as a means to “colonize” parts of Iraq and Syria with the very same toxic ideology that has prevailed for so long in Riyadh – Wahhabism – an extreme perversion of Islam created to serve the House of Saud’s own interests as far back as the 1700s.
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Having failed to overwhelm Syria in the opening phases of the proxy war in 2011, “deconstructing Syria” is the secondary objective. Carving out a region influenced by Washington’s principle Kurdish proxy, Masoud Barzani, and a Saudi-Qatari-Turkish sphere of influence dominated by Al Qaeda appear to be the current focus of Western ambitions in the region. A divided, weakened Syria still serves the purpose of further isolating and weakening Iran in the region.
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For those wondering why Russia and the regime in Ankara are on the brink of war just as ISIS’ supply lines near the Turkish border with Syria are threatened, the fact that Turkey created and has gone through extraordinary measures to ensure those lines are maintained may also be a viable explanation.

The military operations against the terrorist organizations are continuing, with the army’s units intensifying their operations against terrorist targets, destroying equipment and leaving many terrorists dead.

The army, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established full control on Marj al-Sultan village, the Airport and the near farms, as well as the southern farms of al-Blaliya in Eastern al-Ghouta.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) denounced on Monday terrorists’ use of one of its ambulance plates to carry out a terrorist car bomb attack in al-Zahraa neighborhood in Homs city , asserting that such practice aims to abuse the humanitarian work of the organization in Syria.

The terrorist organizations are losing more of their members, including groups’ leaders, as the army units continue operations against their positions, backed by the air force.

The terrorist leader of the so-called “Liwaa al-Nassr” group, who is named Aqil Jumaa, and four of his fellows were killed in a special army operation in the surroundings of al-Kouz Mountain in the northern countryside of Lattakia province, a military source said.

Meanwhile in Daraa, an army unit destroyed a terrorists’ gathering in Aba Zaid neighborhood in addition to destroying mortar launcher, makeshift “hell cannon” and terrorists’ vehicles in the southern side of al-Manshia neighborhood in Daraa al-Balad area.

The Syrian Arab Army announced on Friday that its troops alongside popular forces have not left any safe place for the militants of al-Nusra Front in the mountainous regions in the Northern parts of Lattakia province bordering Turkey after weeks of clashes and mop-up operations.

The army said that the Syrian government forces won all battles against the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front North of Lattakia near the border with Turkey.

“Al-Nusra as one of the strongest terrorist group in Syria has withdrawn from its strongholds near the border with Turkey,” the army source added.

The Syrian Army and its allies are now in a good supplying position in the coastal province of Lattakia after they brought the strategic Lattakia-Kassab highway under their control, military sources said Saturday.

“The recapture of Turkmen mountain (Jabal al-Turkmen) by the Syrian forces played a significant role in reopening the highway,” the military source further added.

In Syria, following the intensification of antiterrorist attacks by the Syrian Arab Army, the foreign commanders of the terrorist gang ‘Jaysh Al-Fatah’ fled from the Aleppo province to their Turkish masters.

According to Al-Manar, the commanders of the terrorist group Al-Jaish Al-Fatah fled Nadjia and Al-Qassania, located on the outskirts of Aleppo to rejoin Turkey.

The intensification of air strikes by Syrian and Russian fighters against the positions of the terrorists in Idlib pushed their cowards mercenary commanders to flee to their heels.

The US State Department has admitted that some of the so-called moderate rebels in Syria have been successfully recruited by the al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, which is being targeted by Russia’s air campaign in Syria.

The information came from US Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Anne Patterson, giving testimony in front of lawmakers.

“The Nusra Front, which is an al-Qaeda affiliate, has absorbed a number of what we would previously call the moderate opposition,” Patterson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

However, the revelations had very little impact on US President Barack Obama’s plans in Syria, as Washington continues to criticize the Russian air strikes and is planning to send around 50 special operatives to Syria to train and assist the “moderate rebels”.

The move to send American military advisors to Syria completely contradicts what the US President Barack Obama promised just over two years ago: “I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria,” he said during a televised national address on September 10, 2013.

Some critics have spoken out, labeling the US move as unlawful.

“There is not legal authorization for troops to go into Syria without permission. This is illegal. Congress has not been consulted or asked and they have not approved it. So the president is acting out of bounds,” retired US Air Force lieutenant Karen Kwiatkowski told RT.

“Clearly, [the US] strategy of working with what we considered to be moderate rebels was wrong. And it is going to be put to an end I think. People in Washington have an imagination about how the mIddle East works that is really not related to reality at all,” Kwiatkowski added.

By Tony Cartalucci (LD).
With the announcement of US special forces joining Western-backed militants on the ground in Syria, many still appear confused as to exactly what the implications of this move are.

As if to assure the public that indeed, the move is to use the so-called Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as a pretext to invade and occupy Syrian territory, the Washington Post has published an article explaining the move in detail titled, “Obama has strategy for Syria, but it faces major obstacles.”

Of course, it should be noted that Turkey itself has been a NATO member since the 1950’s, with a US airbase located on Turkish territory at Incirlik for nearly as long. Since the war started in Syria in 2011, the US has admittedly operated along the Turkish-Syrian border. The New York Times and the Washington Post itself has reported on numerous occasions regarding the US Central Intelligence Agency steering weapons to militant groups across this very border.

There are also multi-billion dollar refugee camps built in a joint effort between Western governments and nongovernmental organizations and the Turkish government itself along the border, as well as US-run training camps for “moderate rebels.”

The question becomes then, if ISIS is receiving the summation of its “foreign fighters, money, and materiael” from Turkey, and the US is operating all along the Turkish border, why isn’t it being interdicted before it reaches Syria?

The Syrian Army on Sunday morning stormed one of the hideouts of the militant groups near al-Farai district and found a large depot of ammunition, weapons and other military equipment after breaking into the terrorists’ defense line, army officials said.

The sources said that the army raided the terrorist group in the early hours of this morning, and killed most of the terrorist in the hideout.

The remaining terrorists withdraw and their hideout which also was used as a munitions depot fell into the hand of the government forces.

Weapons, explosives devices, sniper rifles, RPG launchers, Israeli-made assault rifles, explosive belts and large amounts of C4 and silver nitrates used in making explosive devices were in the seized depot.

On Saturday, Syrian warplanes bombed more positions of Jeish al-Fateh terrorists in the provinces of Hama and Idlib, killing a large number of the militants.

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